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Aleš Debeljak
Cosmopolis
Een selectie uit de poëzie van Aleš Debeljak (geb. 1961).
Aleš Debeljak graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana and received his Ph.D. in Social Thought from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York. He was a Senior Fulbright fellow at the University of California-Berkeley, a research fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study-Collegium Budapest, a writing fellow at Civitella Ranieri Center and a writing fellow of Bogliasco Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities. Debeljak published 12 books of cultural criticism and 8 books of poems in his native Slovenian. His books of poems in English include Anxious Moments (1994), Dictionary of Silence (1999), The City and the Child (1999), and Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems (forthcoming, fall 2010). His non-fiction books in English include The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in a Post-Communist World (2004), Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms (1998), Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia (1994), and a comprehensive anthology The Imagination of Terra Incognita: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (1997) which he edited. A translator of selected poems by John Ashbery and a book on sociology of knowledge, he edited an anthology of American metafiction and an anthology of contemporary Slovenian poetry in English translation. He won several awards, including the Slovenian National Book Award and was named Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia. His books have appeared in English, Japanese, German, French, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Finish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian translation. A member of the editorial board of international magazines Sarajevo Notebooks and Verse, a contributing editor of Cultural Sociology and www.fastcapitalism.com, Debeljak is a recurring visiting professor at College d’Europe, Natolin-Warsaw, and in 2006/7, he was a Roberta Buffett Professor of International Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston-Chicago. He teaches cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and is a member of European Council on Foreign Relations. He and his American wife, a writer Erica Johnson Debeljak, have three children and make their home in Ljubljana.
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verschenen 2010
drietalig (Macedonisch, Slovenisch, Engels)
vertaald in het Macedonisch door Igor Isakovski.
vertaald in het Engels door Christopher Merrill, Andrew Zawacki met Aleš Debeljak.
144 blz.
prijs € 10,-
